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- From: ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles)
- Subject: Re: Suns orbits etc etc
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:42:54 GMT
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- STUCS204@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090 writes:
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- >The problem depends on how the sun orbits the discworld. If the sun orbits orou
- >nd the rim then the descriptions are accurate. If the sun obits in such a way t
- >hat it cuts the discworld 'in half' then the climates are all wrong.
- Of course, you're suggesting that the orbits are circular.......
- What if its an elipse......
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- Eccles aka #include <coffee.h>
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